Improvement in base-burning stoves



STATES PATENT OFFICEu ESEK BUSSEY, OF TROY, NEV YORK, ASSIGNOR TO HIMSELF AND CHARLES A. MCLEOD, OF SAME PLACE.

`|MPROVEMENT IN BASE-BURNING STOVES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 152,597, dated June 30, 1874; application filed January 3, 1874.

To all whom t mty concern:

Be it known that I, EsEK Busser, of Troy, in the county of Rensselaer and State of New York, have invented Improvements in Base- Burning Stoves. 'lhe following description, taken in connection with the accompanying plate of drawings herein after referred to, forms a full and exact specification, wherein are set forth the nature and principles of the invention, by which the same may be distinguished from others of a. similar class, together with such parts thereof as are claimed as new and are desired to be secured by Letters Patent of the United States.

My invention relates to that class of heating apparatus commonly known as base-burnin g'stoves; and the nature thereof consists in certain improvements in the details of the construction of the same, whereby the grated tire-pot is inclosed by a dead-air chamber for the purpose of preventing the circulation of air, and thereby producing a better illumination. Italso consists in the employment of an upper and a lower fire-pot so arranged with reference to each other as to form an annular opening or space somewhere between the top ot' the upper tirepot and the top of the lower tire-pot, and opposite or nearly opposite mica lights in the easing.

In `the accompanying plate of drawings, which illustrate my invention, and in which corresponding parts are designated by similar letters, Figure l is an elevation ot the exterior of a stove having my improvements applied thereto. Fig. 2 is a Avertical section taken in the line indicated by the letters ir a' of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 illustrates in plan that part ofthe stove which forms the base of the deadair chamber.

In the drawing referred to the upper part of the body or easing of the stove, designated A, is of the ordinary construction, and is provided with the usual mica windows B, aft'ording an unobstructed view of the surface of the fire above the tirepots and at the base of the magazine. At the point a the annular top of the upper fire-pot E meets the casing and forms so close a connection therewith as to prevent the air from passing upward, except through the grated portion thereof. Just below the grated fire-pot E the lower fire-pot D is connected by the annular partition H to the casing of the stove,in such a manner as to form about the said grated fire-pot, and between the same and the mica lights I in the casing, a dead-air chamber, K. By this construction the air which enters the ash-pit can only pass upward through the bottom of t-he lower fire-pot, and is not allowed to come in contact with the outer surface of the upper grated fire-pot. rlhe bottom of the said ire-pot proiects outward sutticiently to pre vent the unburnt coa-ls from falling out, and is provided with a series ot' apertures, L, ot' su't'ticicnt size to admit of the removal of sla-te and clinkers from above the grate and on all sides ofthe same. The lower part of the said casing of the stove is provided with a series of doors, M, through which a poker may be introduced for the purpose of removing the clinkers, as aforesaid.

The grate O may be rotated upon a central pivot, having its bearin gs in the cross-piece p, attached to the annular bottom of the lire-pot.

Having described the construction and operation ot' my invention, I will indicate in the following clauses what I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United Statesthat is to say:

l. The combination of the following' elements: The upper tire-pot, the lower tire-pot, and windows in the casing opposite or nearly opposite the space between the fire-pots.

2. rlhe combination of the following elements: The upper tire-pot, the lower lire-pot, the opening between the {ire-pots, the deadair chamber, and the windows in the casing opposite the dead-air chamber, as described.

3. The combination of the upper nre-pot, the lower ire-pot, and the dead-air chamber, as and for the purposes described.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto set my hand this 22d day of Dccember, 1873.

ESEK BUSSEY.

Witnesses:

CRAs. A. McLnoD, Guns. M. AUSTIN. 

